A two-time Aurora Award-winning semi-pro SF fiction zine devoted to inspiring and promoting beginning Canadian SF writers.
Highlights
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- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
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Publication
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
From the editors
Anthologies, Blogs, Defunct Mags, Only Appeared In Print, Other Lit Mags, Personal Websites, Social Media
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
How to submit
Process
Email
Cover letter
No cover letter advice
Eligibility
Location
Formatting
We don't have formatting requirements for this magazine
Author's rights
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Additional info
Contributors must be Canadian, or at least resident in Canada. Short stories and poems can be Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror. Payment. Short stories: $10 for one thousand words or less. One cent a word for stories 1,000 words to 3,000 words in length. Poem (regardless of length–maximum 60 lines): $10. Cover art (colour or B&W): $40. In the case of short stories I do accept both reprints and multiple submissions, and don’t care if simultaneously submitted elsewhere, but this does not apply to poems. CURRENTLY CLOSED to short story submissions and closed to poetry submissions. Always open for cover art.
Tracker statistics
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Total submissions tracked
86 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
70 days
Fastest response time
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About
POLAR BOREALIS Magazine is an Aurora Award-winning non-profit semi-professional SF fiction magazine which costs nothing and is free to anyone who wants to read it. No income is derived from distribution of this online non-profit magazine, nor is any income derived from any ads contained within its p...
Read moreFounded
2016
Country
CA
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R. Graeme Cameron
Editor-in-Chief